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May 22nd, 2019
University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) research professor and senior faculty member of the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), Frank Tanser, has been awarded a prestigious Royal Geographical Society Back Award for conducting seminal research...

April 24th, 2019
A 25-week-old unborn Johannesburg baby has become the first foetus in Africa to receive anaesthetic and undergo ground-breaking “keyhole” surgery to the spine. The four-hour procedure, which involved removing the womb and resting it on the...

April 24th, 2019
Two years ago Dr Sue Walter was diagnosed with multiple myeloma – a bone cancer that forced her to stop practising medicine and take up the cause to fight for the rights of people who are undergoing extreme irremediable suffering to have...

April 17th, 2019
Frustrated by the pressure that injuries and casualties caused by gang-related violence placed on the treatment of ordinary ailments, a former public health nurse took her pension fund money and opened her own primary healthcare clinic in the...

April 3rd, 2019
When nursing sister Salome Siebritz learned that one of her patients had the chance of a lifesaving operation, she knew what she had to do. The Times reports that Cally Williams, 25, had 12 hours to get to Cape Town from Port Elizabeth for a...

March 20th, 2019
A Wits University lecturer in the department of haematology and molecular medicine has been named as one of the 100 Most Influential Young People in South Africa for 2018.
The ranking of young professionals is organised by Avance Media, a PR...

March 13th, 2019
Professor Peter Zilla, head of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Chris Barnard division of cardiothoracic surgery, has been awarded Austria’s highest national accolade, the Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of...

March 13th, 2019
Tributes have poured in for gynaecologist and obstetrician Dr Monty Brink, who died while participating in the Cape Town Cycle Tour on Sunday. News24 reports that his former patients described him as a caring and kind doctor who went the extra...

March 6th, 2019A baby boy, thought to be the smallest ever to survive, weighing 268g at birth, has finally been sent home from hospital. According to a report in The Daily Telegraph the baby boy from Japan weighed just 268g when he was born 16 weeks early last...

March 6th, 2019
Rebecca Henderson, who carried an artificial heart in a rucksack after her own was removed, has died from transplant complications. BBC News reports that Henderson, 24, from Bicester, was given the green light to receive a donor organ after...

February 27th, 2019
A surgeon used a pocket knife and a basting needle to perform emergency surgery that saved the life of a road accident victim, reports The Times. Dr Wimpie Odendaal was in Port Elizabeth on holiday and was the first to arrive on the scene of an...

February 6th, 2019
The man who discovered painkiller ibuprofen worked when he cured his own hangover has died aged 95. BBC News reports that Dr Stewart Adams was involved in 10 years of trials of the drug and endured a seven-year wait for it to be approved as a...

January 23rd, 2019
South Africa has lost a prominent doctor, activist and scientist, who campaigned against quackery and for better health regulations. News24 reports that Professor Roy Jobson has died at the age of 63. He experienced difficulty with breathing and...

January 23rd, 2019
Dr William Frankland, aged 106, has helped transform our understanding of allergies during his long career in medicine. A pioneer in the field, Frankland popularised the pollen count to help clinicians and patients understand what triggers their...

January 16th, 2019Dr Nkele Lesia's appointment as the new CEO of Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital has been welcomed by veteran health observer Jack Bloom – who hopes she tackles its deep-rooted problems head on. "This appointment is long overdue as the hospital has...

January 16th, 2019
Tributes have been paid to one of the world's leading oncologists, who has died at the age of 67, reports BBC News. Martin Gore was a professor at the Institute of Cancer Research and also worked at the Royal Marsden Hospital. The cause of his...

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